Rhode Island lawmakers are considering three proposals to raise the minimum wage beyond its scheduled increase to $17 an hour ...

The proposed $9.5 million settlement stems from lawsuit four employees filed against FedEx, accusing the company of failing to pay Connecticut workers for required pre- and post-shift activities.

Pennsylvania’s minimum wage hasn’t budged from the $7.25 federal minimum that was set in 2009. But the number of Pennsylvanians actually making that much per hour is small and shrinking. Last year, ...

Florida is one of only nine states in the nation where overall wages rose faster than the rate of inflation and had the second biggest increase in "real purchasing power," according to a new national ...

Home care, assisted living costs for older adults have surged over the past five years, straining affordability for middle class families, AARP said ...

As the Republican Party has morphed into an averse-to-democracy cult of personality, its members are frantically labeling the ...

Americans may be feeling "tip fatigue," but most are still leaving gratuities for a range of services — and where they live appears to shape how much they give, according to a new report. South ...

Democrats seek to channel electorate frustration over high prices in bid to chip away at Republicans' unified control of ...

California community colleges get far less state funding than Universities of California or Cal States. Yet they’re powerful ...

The CT House OK'd a four-year contract granting annual raises of up to 5% to 3,661 state employees, setting aside Republican ...